The document discusses creating a healthy and sustainable food system in the United States. It proposes a system with sustainable food that protects the environment, healthy food that prevents illness, affordable food accessible to all Americans, and fair food produced through livable wages. It also describes initiatives to increase fruit and vegetable consumption through programs like nutrition incentives at farmers markets, and "Fruit and Vegetable Prescriptions" through healthcare providers.

1. Gus Schumacher
London-”Food Thinkers”
November 23,2016
Farmers, Health and Nutrition:
“Farmers as Farmacies”

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4. A Healthy, Sustainable Food System
A Healthy, Sustainable Food System featuring:
• Sustainable Food: “food grown that protects water, soil and air”
• Healthy Food: “food that won’t make you sick”
• Affordable food: “Food that is accessible and available to all
Americans”
• Fair Food: “food grown, picked and processed by workers with
livable wages”

5. UK Childhood Obesity Strategy
-Soft Drinks “Levy” Pending
-L60 million “Healthy Start “ Vouchers
-Healthier Foods by UK Agribusiness Firms
-Public Sector “Healthy Options”
-Rose Fruit and Veggie Scheme L50,000
expands outside of London with Lottery
funding

6. Nutrition Incentives Addressing Health
WW takes a holistic,
community based
approach to
initiatives, working
collaboratively with
farmers, farmers
markets, community
leaders, healthcare
providers, nonprofits
and government
entities

7. • 6237 Farmers at
350 markets
• 40,000 Nutrition
Incentive
Consumers
• 250 Network
Partners in 46
States and DC
Nutrition Incentive Data-2016 Wholesome Wave

8. Growth in Farmers Markets

9. Growth in Food Stamps
.

10. Blue and Orange Food Stamps
1939

11. 2014 Farm Bill
“$100 Million for Nutrition Incentives
At Farmers Markets”
..
“2014 Farm Bill Includes $100
million for Nutrition Incentives
for SNAP Families at Farmers
Markets”
“Farm Bill requires an $100 million
more as “match”

12. Obesity Prevalence in the US
10-14.9%
15-19.9%
20-24.9%
25-29.9%
30% or more
Source: West Virginia Department of Health & Human Resources, Bureau of Public Health
http://www.wvdhhr.org/bph/hsc/pubs/other/obesityreport2011/obesityreport2011.pdf

13. McDonalds and Diet

14. Which Policies Should We Look To?

15. Urbanization Changes Diets:
How to Provision Megacities?
Source:http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK%3A20149913~menuPK%3A34457~pagePK%3A64003015~piPK%
3A64003012~theSitePK%3A4607,00.html
The U.N.
projects that
60% of world
population will
live in cities by
2030, and 70%
by 2050.

16. Calories vs Nutrition
“Calories per Hectare”
vs “Nutrition per
Hectare”
-Success of Green Revolution- “Calories per
Hectare”, Feed the World, Reducing Hunger
-Massive Private and Public Investment in Bio-
Technology, Hybrid Breeding, Focus on Key
Grains-Wheat, Rice, and Oilseeds

17. Healthy Food

18. Chicago Council - HEALTHY FOOD FOR A HEALTHY
WORLD, 2015
How do we move from this to this?
Diverse foods in Vietnam Bioversity International/J. Raneri

19. 100% of Global need
We don’t grow enough vegetables,
fruits, nuts and seeds
Red Meat
+468%
Nuts and Seeds
(-68%)
Fish
+48%
Fruit
(-44%)
Whole Grains
+54%
Vegetables
(-11%)
Milk
(-49%)
Adapted from Murray
2014

20. Solution: Agricultural biodiversity
nourishes people
Zambia
NepalItaly Mexico
IndonesiaVietnam
Photo credit: Top – Bioversity International (E. Hermanowicz, J. Raneri,
B. Sthapit)
Bottom – Bioversity International/R. Faidutti, LI-BIRD/P. Shrestha,
Nicolas Kniseley

21. Health Care Policies
Costs of Diseases to Which Diet and Inactivity
are Major Contributors
$-
$50
$100
$150
$200
$250
Cancer Diabetes Coronary
Heart
Disease
Obesity High Blood
Pressure
Stroke Osteoporosis
$219
$174
$156
$123
$66
$57
$19
Billions
National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity (2010) National Health Priorities: Reducing Obesity, Heart Disease, Cancer,
Diabetes, and other Diet- and Inactivity-Related Diseases, Costs and Disabilities,
http://www.cspinet.org/new/pdf/cdc_briefing_book_fy10.pdf

22. A Healthy, Sustainable Food System
A Healthy, Sustainable Food System Mitigating
Diabetic Illness :
There have been about 1,500 amputations from 10 years of
war, resulting from the work of a very diabolical and
determined enemy.
Do you know how many diabetic amputations there are in
America?.
In 2010 alone, about 73,000.

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26. Screening
and
Recruitment
Incentives
Nutrition
Education
Evaluation
HEALTHY Veggie/ Rx PROGRAM COMPONENTS

27. Food & Farm Policies
Farm Bill
• SNAP (food stamps)
• Farmers Market
Nutrition Programs:
Seniors and Women,
Infant and Children
• Nutrition Incentives

28. Healthy & Affordable Food:
Fruit and Vegetable Prescriptions
 The Fruit and Vegetable Prescription
Program measures health outcomes linked
to increased fruit and vegetable
consumption.
 FVRx promotes innovative partnerships
between healthcare providers, farmers
markets and families with diet-related
diseases.
 The four to six month program is designed
to provide assistance to overweight and
obese children.
 FVRx is also expanding to target
community members with Type 2 diabetes
and other diet-related diseases.

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31. A Healthy, Sustainable Food System
A Healthy, Sustainable Food System featuring:
• Sustainable Food: “food grown that protects water, soil and air”
• Healthy Food: “food that won’t make you sick”
• Affordable food: “Food that is accessible and available to all
Americans”
• Fair Food: “food grown, picked and processed by workers with
livable wages”